Tiddler Toddler

UploadLog

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:42:18 GMT

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03/12/2007 00:20:04	Julie	/	store.cgi	.	index.html	.
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03/12/2007 13:28:53	Julie	/	store.cgi	.	index.html	.
03/12/2007 18:48:07	Julie	/	store.cgi	.	index.html	.
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Insert a Picture

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:41:25 GMT

Dal Lake, Kashmir

Pictures take up a fair amount of room so TW users usually host their pictures externally on a site like Flickr or ImageShack. You can then paste the link for the picture into your tiddler.

There's some formatting you need to know. You can either use a Direct Link (url) or HTML code. Open this tiddler and look at the above picture to see the formatting for a Direct Link or url (the pasted link starts with http and ends with .jpg, the rest is formatting).

The picture below shows the formatting for HTML. The pasted link starts with <a and finishes with >a. The rest is formatting.

Aru-Lidderwat Trail, Kashmir

Here are some step-by-steps for ImageShack and Flickr.

ImageShack

Go to ImageShack, browse for an image you want to upload from your hard drive. Add tags, if you like, then click on Host It!

A list of links will appear. Click inside either the Direct Link or HTML box, copy the code and paste it into your tiddler with the appropriate formatting. (See above)

If you want to use a picture that you've previously uploaded to ImageShack, log in, find the picture and click on the little icon beside it that says Image Details. You'll see the HTML and Direct Link url there.

Flickr

Go to Flickr. You'll need to log in or create a Flickr account. If you're uploading pictures that aren't already on Flickr, choose Upload Pictures, then Choose Pictures. Browse for the picture you want to upload, then click on Upload. Next step is 'describe your pictures' - tags, captions etc.

Breathe.

Now, click on the photo. Click on All Sizes at the top of it. Select what size you want, then you'll see two boxes of code appear below it.

Click in whichever box you want to use, copy the code and paste it into your tiddler with the appropriate formatting (see above).

If you want the picture to link back to your Flickr page (as Flickr's Community Policy recommends), you need to use the code in the box titled 'Copy and paste this HTML into your webpage'.

Autosave

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:53:00 GMT

To select autosave, go to 'options' on the right-hand top menu. A blue box will open. Look around halfway down and click on 'autosave'.

Job done. Your TW will now save every time you make a change.

If you are doing a lot of work, and the flood of save prompts start driving you nuts, go back into 'options' and unclick autosave. You can go back in later and re-select it.

Add Menu Item

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:47:02 GMT

Find MainMenu and open it for editing. (If you can't see it anywhere, try searching for it or looking on the Timeline or All on the blue right-hand menu).

Decide where in the menu list you want the new item to appear.

Type in the name of the tiddler you want to appear there.

For it to work as a link, you will have to insert two square brackets on either side of the name like this. You can open this tiddler to see how that was done.

You don't need to use square brackets if the name of the tiddler is a WikiWord.

Change Where My TiddlyWiki Backups Are Stored

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:43:03 GMT

By default, every time you 'save changes' on your TiddlyWiki a backup copy will also be saved - into the same folder. A great long list of back-up versions can soon build up, cluttering up the folder.

An easy solution is to create a back-up folder to hold all the back-up files.

Go to 'options' on the right-hand top menu. Click on 'AdvancedOptions' at the bottom of the blue box.

You'll see a table open up. About three lines down you'll see 'Name of folder to use for backups'.

Type in a name (NB this is literally a name, not the address of the folder). I, rather unimaginatively, call my folder called Tiddly Back-ups.

Close the AdvancedOptions tiddler.

Now go to the folder you keep your TiddlyWiki in. You should see a new folder has been created in there with the name you just typed in. From now on your backups will be stored in this folder.

Julie's Blog

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 05:45:00 GMT

Welcome to Tiddler Toddler blogs, where absolute beginner Julie Starr is documenting her learning curve with TiddlyWiki, a fantastic working tool created by Jeremy Ruston.

There's nothing quite like reading about someone else's mistakes to make you feel better about your own. So here's a blow-by-blow account of my hits and misses in TiddlyWorld.

Day Five: Where Did Day Four Go?
Day Four: A (Fleeting) Splash of Colour
Day Three: Learning the Language
Day Two: Learning Cliff
Day One: Learning Curve

Download a Local Copy of a Tiddlyspot TiddlyWiki

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 09:22:00 GMT

Once you've created a Tiddlyspot TW, you can download a local copy of it, so you can work on it offline and later upload tiddlers from that local copy to Tiddlyspot as and when you like.

In the TiddlySpot TW, click on 'download' on the top-right menu.

Copy Existing Tiddlers into a TW Hosted on TiddlySpot

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 09:21:00 GMT

If you have tiddlers on a pre-existing local TiddlyWiki that you want to include on your live Tiddlyspot TW, here's one way of getting them up there. (There are more sophisticated methods - see Get Help or check out the mailing list - but this works fine):

Open the local copy of your TiddlySpot TW. If you don't yet have a local copy, make one by clicking on 'download' on the top right menu and following the instructions.
In the local copy, click on the backstage button (top right corner of the blue banner). Then select Import.
Follow the instructions to find the file you want to Import from. Hit Open. A dialog box will open with a kind of warning in it and asking you to Allow or Deny (at least that's what I get).
Choose Allow.
Now another box opens, titled Import Tiddlers from Another File or Server. Give the workspace a name, or choose default, and hit Open.
Next a box will open which lists all the tiddlers in the TW you are importing from. Tick the boxes of the ones you want to import. Then hit Import.
Another dialog box will open listing those tiddlers you've selected and showing progress of Import. It will say the Import is finished once it's done.
Click on Close (top right corner, where you found the backstage button).

You should be able to see the tiddlers you've imported. To upload them to the live Tiddlyspot TW:

Click on 'upload' (top right menu). You'll see another dialog box or two with a warning and buttons saying Allow or Deny.
Choose Allow.

You should see a yellow box open now which says:
Backup saved
Main TiddlyWiki file saved
About to upload on http://tiddlywikiname.tiddlyspot.com/index.html ...

When it's done, it will also say this:
Main TiddlyWiki file uploaded

When you open your Tiddlyspot TW you should see the tiddlers you uploaded. (It might pay to close the local copy of the TW first, to avoid confusion - see blog.)

Host a TiddlyWiki on Tiddlyspot

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 09:21:00 GMT

To host a TW on Tiddlyspot, start by going to Tiddlyspot and following the instructions to create a hosted TW.

You'll then be able to create and edit tiddlers as normal and save them. You can choose whether you want other people to be able to see it, or only specific people that you have identified.

NB You need to create the TW on Tiddlyspot rather than creating it on your hard drive and uploading it to Tiddlyspot later. However, once you've created your Tiddlyspot TW, you will be able to download a local copy of it, so you can work on it offline and upload tiddlers from that local copy to Tiddlyspot as and when you like.

Here's one way of doing that (there are more sophisticated methods - see Get Help or check out the mailing list - but this works fine):

Download the TW from Tiddlyspot (click on 'download' on top right menu). This will create a local copy of the TW.
In the local copy, click on the backstage button (top right corner in the blue banner). Then select Import.
Follow the instructions to find the file you want to Import from. Hit Open. A dialog box will open with a kind of warning in it and asking you to Allow or Deny (at least that's what I get).
Choose Allow.
Now another box opens, titled Import Tiddlers from Another File or Server. Give the workspace a name, or choose default, and hit Open.
Next a box will open which lists all the tiddlers in the TW you are importing from. Tick the boxes of the ones you want to import. Then hit Import.
Another dialog box will open listing those tiddlers you've selected and showing progress of Import. It will say the Import is finished once it's done.
Click on Close (most top right corner, where you found the backstage button).

You should be able to see the tiddlers you've imported. To upload them to the live Tiddlyspot TW:

Click on 'upload' (top right menu). You'll see another dialog box or two with a warning and buttons saying Allow or Deny.
Choose Allow.

I Want To...

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 09:03:00 GMT

Here's a few things I needed help with when I started. If you can't see what you want, try looking in the Tags menu on the right or typing a keyword into the search box (top right). Otherwise check out Get Help for links to other help sites or try the FAQ at tiddlywiki.org.

Add Dividing Line in Menu
Add Menu Item
Autosave
Bold a word or phrase
Change the Look of My TiddlyWiki
Change Where My TiddlyWiki Backups Are Stored
Copy Existing Tiddlers into a TW Hosted on TiddlySpot
Create Links
Create a Tiddler
Disable WikiWords
Download a Local Copy of a Tiddlyspot TiddlyWiki
Edit a Tiddler
Find a Tiddler
Host a TiddlyWiki on Tiddlyspot
Indent a paragraph
Insert a Picture
Italicise a word
Make My Tiddlyspot TiddlyWiki Private
Name My TiddlyWiki
Rename a Tiddler
Stop the Word TiddlyWiki From Opening New Tiddlers
Stop WikiWords From Acting as Links
Upload to a Tiddlyspot TiddlyWiki
Use a Picture
Write in the Big Blue Space at the Top of the Page

Find a Tiddler

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 08:58:00 GMT

There are a few ways of finding a tiddler.

Look on the main menu (that's the left-hand menu on this TiddlyWiki)
Type a keyword or the tiddler's name in the search box (top right).
Select the All tab on the blue menu on the right to see an alphabetical list of all the tiddlers
Select the Tags tab on the blue menu on the right and look for a keyword the tiddler may be tagged with

Name My TiddlyWiki

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 08:11:00 GMT

Find the tiddler SiteTitle. It was in GettingStarted which you would have seen when you first downloaded your TiddlyWiki, but you can also find it by using the search box (top right) or the blue Timeline on the right.

Open SiteTitle for editing and write the name of your TiddlyWiki in the main text box (the big one below the yellow box which says 'this shadow tiddler...')

Hit Done (grey menu at top right of tiddler). You should now see your title in the big blue space at the top of the page.

To give your TiddlyWiki a sub-title - the smaller writing in the blue space - find and open the tiddler SiteSubtitle and type in the main text box.

Edit a Tiddler

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 08:09:00 GMT

To open a tiddler for editing, click on Edit (grey menu at top right of tiddler), or double click anywhere in the text.

You can now type in the tiddler. To find out how to format text - make words bold, italic etc - look at FormatText.

To save your edits, click on Done (grey menu at top right of tiddler). You must do this before navigating away from the page otherwise you may lose your work.

Before leaving the site, click on Save Changes (right-hand top menu) This is important! (see blogs)

Create Links

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 07:14:00 GMT

Links Within Your TiddlyWiki

To create a link within your TiddlyWiki to another tiddler, put two double brackets on either side of the name of the tiddler like this. Click on Edit (grey menu at top right) to look inside this tiddler.

TOP TIP If you ever want to see how someone else has created links, or styled text or anything else, you can click on Edit to open the tiddler in edit mode, where you'll be able to see the formatting they've used. It's perfectly okay to go into someone else's tiddler if it's in a help file.

You can also use WikiWords, which are a feature of TiddlyWiki.

The advantage of using WikiWords - words containing more than one capital letter - is that they automatically work as links, so you don't have to put square brackets around them when you add them to a menu or include them as a link in a tiddler.

FormatText, on the left-hand menu, is an example of a WikiWord on this site. If you open this tiddler in Edit mode, you'll see that I didn't have to put square brackets around FormatText it to make it work as a link.

Trouble is, they act as links even if you didn't mean to create a WikiWord. If you typed in CMSs as an abbreviation, say, or Ctrl-B, they will work as WikiWords even if you didn't mean them to.

The way around this is to put a tilde character (~) in front of the words in question. If you put a tilde in front of CMSs it behaves like an ordinary word, same for Ctrl-B or TiddlyWiki or WikiWord. Click on Edit to see how this was done.

External Links

Type two square brackets either side of the url you want to link to. Inside the brackets, insert the text you want readers to see plus a 'post' character (|) before the url, like this New York Times. You can open this tiddler to have a look at that.

NB You must include http:// in the url.

Text links

Sometimes you want to create links where the reader can click on a word or phrase and be directed to a tiddler or an external website.

For example, you might want to write click here to learn how to format text.

Or, you might want to write about something you saw in the Herald but not have to spell out the url for the Herald in the text.

To do this, type two square brackets on either side of the tiddler name or url you want to link to. Inside the brackets, insert the text you want readers to see plus a 'post' character (|) before the tiddler name or url.

You can open this tiddler to see how the examples were done.

About Julie

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 06:47:00 GMT

Julie Starr runs an editorial services company based in Auckland, New Zealand. She set it up in 2007 after returning to her homeland from the UK where she worked on the design and rollout of Telegraph Media Group's integrated multimedia newsroom in London.

A journalist, Julie has worked in radio and print for two decades as a presenter, reporter, sub-editor and editorial process manager. She's currently enthused about social networks and spends a lot of her spare time messing around online.

Julie came across TiddlyWiki while working in London and, to be honest, struggled with it. But she believes she's getting the hang of it now. A little, anyway.

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FormatText

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 23:04:00 GMT

Click on edit (grey menu top right above tiddler) to look inside this tiddler and see how to create text formatting like this:

bold phrase

bold word (that's two single quote marks either side of the word, not one double quote mark)

bold letter (two single quote marks either side of the letter)

italics

==Strike==

Underline

bullet point
- bullet points

numbered list
1. numbered lists

big headline

medium headline

small headline

indent

indent with rule
indent further with rule
indent further with rule

Welcome

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 10:17:00 GMT

Tiddler Toddler is a resource for absolute beginners put together by Julie Starr, who is an absolute beginner herself. It is a work in progress. I have borrowed from other excellent help sites (see below) but all the mistakes here are my own.

There are simple instructions here on how to use TiddlyWiki and links to other help sites.

This is a good place to look around if...

you can use Word but don't know what code or html is
you like the look of TiddlyWiki but you can't seem to get past first base
you don't understand why blue words that look like links don't behave the way you expect
you've used TiddlyWiki before but got bamboozled and gave up
you want to read about someone else's mistakes to make you feel better about your own

There are plenty of other great help sites for TiddlyWiki. They include

Jim Ventola's TidHelp
Dave Gifford's TiddlyWiki for the Rest of Us
Morris Gray's TW Help - TiddlyWiki help file for beginners
Dmitri Popov's TiddlyWiki quick reference card
Screencasts from JimVentola and LeonKilat.

There's also a Community documentation wiki, including a FAQ. And there's a mailing list, which is an excellent place to ask questions and get help from some very helpful and friendly people.

TiddlyWiki was created by Jeremy Ruston. Find out more at tiddlywiki.com.

This TiddlyWiki is hosted on tiddlyspot.com.

MainMenu

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 04:15:00 GMT

Welcome
Julie's Blog

What's a TiddlyWiki?
How it Works

Add Menu Item
Create Links
Create a Tiddler
Edit a Tiddler
Find a Tiddler
FormatText
Get Help
Host a TiddlyWiki on Tiddlyspot
Insert a Picture
Pimp My TiddlyWiki
Read a Tiddler
Save My TiddlyWiki
WikiWords

Save Your Work!

I Want To...
I've Got a Problem

About Julie

DefaultTiddlers

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:37:00 GMT

Welcome
Julie's Blog

Rename a Tiddler

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:36:00 GMT

No problem. Open the tiddler for editing.
Delete the old name. Type in the new name.
Hit Done.
Your tiddler is now renamed.
Next, amend the name on the MainMenu and in any other tiddlers that link to the tiddler you've just renamed.